I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'
I said not particularly.
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
Harper LeeTags: jem mockingbird atticus
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Harper LeeTags: modern-classic
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper LeeWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
Harper LeeTags: love
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
Harper LeeTags: trust
I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. 'Because you're children and you can unterstand it,' he said.
Harper LeeLadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
Harper LeeThere was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.
'Your stomach's growling,' I said.
'I know it,' he said.
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